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Re: telnet to newsgroup


On 4/5/2012 4:40 PM, John wrote:
Okay, I substituted 563 for nntps in the command like this:

gnutls-cli --insecure -p 563 news.gmane.org | grep 200

And it now works correctly. Exactly the same response from his linux system
was returned in my cygwin environment:

200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)
Good.
Am I understanding that this is an encrypted Telnet connection to gmane's news server? Is the reason for the option "--insecure" needed because this is not an authenticated logon? Thanks.
It's not a telnet connection. You're not using telnet! You're using gnutls-cli, which is not telnet. As for what gnutls-cli's --insecure option means you should consult it's man page. I don't have gnutls-cli installed but this (http://linux.die.net/man/1/gnutls-cli) says:

--insecure
  Don't abort program if server certificates can't be validated.

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